polars.datatypes.Enum

class polars.datatypes.Enum(categories: Series | Iterable[str] | type[enum.Enum])

A fixed categorical encoding of a unique set of strings.

Parameters:

categories

The categories in the dataset; must be a unique set of strings, or an existing Python string-valued enum.

Examples

Explicitly define enumeration categories:

>>> pl.Enum(["north", "south", "east", "west"])
Enum(categories=['north', 'south', 'east', 'west'])

Initialise from an existing Python enumeration:

>>> from http import HTTPMethod
>>> pl.Enum(HTTPMethod)
Enum(categories=['CONNECT', 'DELETE', 'GET', 'HEAD', 'OPTIONS', 'PATCH', 'POST', 'PUT', 'TRACE'])

__init__(categories: Series | Iterable[str] | type[enum.Enum]) → None

Methods

__init__(categories)
base_type()	Return this DataType's fundamental/root type class.
from_python(py_type)	Return the Polars data type corresponding to a given Python type.
is_(other)	Check if this DataType is the same as another DataType.
is_decimal()	Check whether the data type is a decimal type.
is_float()	Check whether the data type is a floating point type.
is_integer()	Check whether the data type is an integer type.
is_nested()	Check whether the data type is a nested type.
is_numeric()	Check whether the data type is a numeric type.
is_object()	Check whether the data type is an object type.
is_signed_integer()	Check whether the data type is a signed integer type.
is_temporal()	Check whether the data type is a temporal type.
is_unsigned_integer()	Check whether the data type is an unsigned integer type.
to_dtype_expr()	Return a DataTypeExpr with a static DataType.
to_python()	Return the Python type corresponding to this Polars data type.
union(other)	Union of two Enums.

Attributes

categories